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UW-Milwaukee’s Peck School of the Arts hosts the Kenilworth Open Studios every spring, and it’s become a MiLO tradition to perform at the event. My last post included some samples of our final rehearsal prior to the event, but being that MiLO was really on the ball, I have more material to share. We managed to not only record the whole performance, we also have some video and a small photo shoot. We’ve been playing together for about 6 years and amazingly, we don’t have any “band shots”, so this was kind of a big deal. Crazy, I know. With our grand sense of organization this time around, we had enough material for Christopher Burns, one of our founding members, to construct an internet home for our activities. Thanks, Christopher!

In general, the event seemed a great success and we certainly enjoyed our part in it. The new performance space on the sixth floor was absolutely wonderful, complete with stunning views of Lake Michigan. We performed a number of improvisations, György Ligeti’s classic tape piece Artikulation and an improvisation conducted by Kevin Schlei’s Collision software. Throughout the performance, many MiLO-ites used Kevin’s TC-11 Multi-Touch Synthesis iPad app. If you haven’t seen it yet, I recommend checking it out here.

MiLO also has a new Soundcloud page with recordings for all the material from this performance. Here’s one of the improvisations from later in the set.

I believe this might be a first (though I’m not entirely sure), but I have video footage to share. I used my iPhone, which unfortunately ran out of storage space after about 20 minutes. I ended up capturing the first improvisation in it’s entirety, but the camera cut out during the performance of Artikulation. Here’s the Improvisation #1 I posted to my Vimeo page.